Rohit

“We live in an age where competition, domination and one-upmanship are portrayed as the crucial elements for survival. Where power and influence both subtle and glaring, are thought primarily necessary for one’s deepest fulfillment and gratification. But the ant and the caterpillar, like the Honey guide and the Badger or the Hermit crab and the Sea anemone, are beacons for a different kind of community. A community where relating and relationship, synergy and symbiosis and being there for one another, are regarded above everything else.”
― M. Yuvan, A Naturalist’s Journal

“Fitzjames had once asked him how he could approach life-threatening peril and minor annoyances with the same mildness and he’d shrugged. ‘It doesn’t improve my mood to catastrophise, so I don’t.’ ‘And what about hope? Have you ever been in love, Graham?’ Fitzjames had asked. ‘Ever lived for the bestowment of a fair smile?’ ‘Ah, love, life’s greatest catastrophe.”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

“River Elbe flows through the Czech Republic, summer water levels have recently dropped so far that ‘hunger stones’ have been uncovered – carved boulders used for centuries to commemorate droughts and warn of their consequences. One of the hunger stones bears the inscription ‘Wenn du mich siehst, dann weine’: ‘If you see me, weep.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey

“Ideas are frictional, factional entities which wilt when pinned to flowcharts. Ideas have to cause problems before they cause solutions.”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time